Natural Disasters Strikes: I stockpiled like crazy! - Chapter 117

Chapter 117: Meditation
The vinegar eliminated all the human scent they had.

Everyone used the snow to clean themselves and let the wind disperse the smell away.

Nanzhi saw some bamboo trees with remaining leaves on them.

She wore gloves and plucked the leaves off and had everyone go back to the enclosed jeeps to rub the bamboo on their skin.

Wolves will not pay much attention to the scents they encounter every day, making it very convenient to move around.

Lin Weihao didn’t ask any questions and quickly stripped off his clothes down to his boxer shorts.

He didn’t even flinch when the harsh wind blew into his well-sculpted naked body.

Nanzhi handed hot compresses to everyone to make it less cold.

….

“If you want to breathe, cover your mouths with your scarves,” Nanzhi said through the layers of scarf on her face.

Everyone nodded before carrying bamboo leaves to the building.

“What do I smell like? Will the bamboo leaves and the mouthwash really work?” Yu Baoyin asked Nanzhi.

“Dungs works better,” Nanzhi answered.

It was the method that allowed her to escape from the Tier 2 Alien Beast Territory. Its masking ability is much stronger than bamboo.

Although it was disgusting, in the face of death, you don’t have much choice.

Yu Baoyin: “…”

She regretted asking Nanzhi.

The bamboo in her eyes became fragrant flowers, and she rubbed a few more on her hands and even chewed some after listening to her sister Nan.

The three-story building they settled in was a pagoda inside the Tropical Rainforest.

It was built in front of a boat wharf of a small man-made lake that is now frozen in ice.

Everyone treaded carefully, not wanting to slip.

Based on the map, it is stated that the pagoda was a restaurant before.

Because of the flood, there is not much left of it.

The roof of the third floor was destroyed, along with half of its walls.

It was fortunate that there is still an intact room on the second floor.

After cleaning, they closed the windows and the doors and strengthened it up with a barricade before covering the floor with bamboo leaves where they could sit.

They didn’t make a bonfire and only warmed themselves with hot compresses.

Nanzhi knew they would not last long under this weather.

The brochures and flyers containing the maps were laid out.

Nanzhi and Lin Weihao’s eyes were drawn to the seed vault underneath the Plant Conservatory.

Out of the structures in the botanical garden and Plant Conservatory, it was the safest one, and people would go for it.

The survivors, Professor Xuan Yi, and the army would surely be there.

But the south of the botanical garden is near the foot of the mountain, it’s probably swamped with mudslides.

While everyone made themselves familiar with the map, Nanzhi went out.

She jumped into the game lobby and the daily dungeon, started dismantling the wolf and coyote corpses, and harvested their spars.

After harvesting, she counted the spars.

There were 21 below Tier 1 spars and 20 above Tier 1 from the coyotes, and 20 Tier 1 middle stage from the wolves.

She split them equally and put half into a small pouch.

Whilst, she checked the salacca trees and was glad that they would bear six more fruits in the next twelve hours.

She had tried the seeding function on it, and it only gave her two seeds.

Nanzhi also checked her survival points.

She received a daily point of three in the current dungeon, adding to points she accumulated from the previous dungeon, 44, the accumulated survival points’ balance is now at 53.

Nanzhi cleaned the safe zone and took out the spars.

She closed her eyes and absorbed the lowest quality of spars from the coyotes first in order to recover her mental energy.

Technically, alien beasts are more powerful than the awakeners of the same rank.

That is why awakeners would never challenge the same rank of alien beasts recklessly.

Her current mental power had been reduced to 68 points after killing the wolves.

Speaking of which, there are many ways to recover mental energy.

The most common is to rest overnight through meditating.

Another way is to consume a mental power recovery solution made from rare alien plants like the Bingdi Lotus.

But right now, it was a small sapling. She would need to wait for 11 days before she harvest it.

Lastly was absorbing spars.

It’s the reason why awakeners always carry spare spars for emergencies.

The white chicken resting on the bed of hay looked at its kernel provider with curious eyes.

Nanzhi tried absorbing one below Tier 1 spar to check how many points she would gain from it.

After the spar had turned into an ordinary rock, she called out her personal interface.

[Mental Power: 70]

It increased by 2 points.

She tried absorbing each of the other ranks.

The results were 4 points for Tier 1, 5 points for early stage, and 7 points for one spar of Tier 1 Mid Stage.

It’s expensive.

Meditation is still the cheapest.

Nanzhi thought.

[Mental Power: 86]

Although there were still a lot of remaining spars, she didn’t use them all and kept the rest for later.

After her mental power recovered to 100 points, she shifted to the meditation method since there was still time left in the Daily Dungeon.

[Daily Dungeon: 1 hour and 34 minutes]

Whenever she meditated, her mind would always come back to the Mind Palace.

The small red ball of light always gets excited when she returns.

Nanzhi smiled and sat cross-legged on the pitch-black floor of her Mind Palace and started meditating, cutting off all her attention from the mundane world.

She had been meditating like this for a few days.

Initially, she had been like a headless fly that didn’t know what to do.

But as she gets accustomed to it, meditation has become easier.

In this state, her mind’s eye can see blue and white strands in her mind palace.

They were woven threads of aurora lights, glowing in the darkness.

These thin threads circled around her before entering her glabella, slowly replenishing her lost mental energy.